Our Co-Chair John Puntis spoke to Times Radio on the infected blood scandal:

'All these inquiries say patients aren't listened to. We also need an NHS where staff can report concerns. Currently the amount of staff saying they feel safe raising concerns has actually gone down'

The study sorted A&E pts into groups, ranging from life threatening emergencies to low acuity patients who could have been seen in a GP setting. The expectation was that 20-40% patients would fall into the low acuity group. The actual figure was just 4% bmj.com/content/385/bm…

It's puzzling that people blame 'the NHS' for the state it's in. It's not a religion, simply a mechanism for paying for universal care (tax funded, free at the point of need, largely publicly provided). The main reasons it can't cope with demand, in no particular order are...

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Water companies have had 34 years to invest in infrastructure. Instead, they've paid out £78 billion to shareholders.

Now they want you to pay up to £915 a year, to cover their failure.

We need to put people before profits. We need public ownership.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

If Jewish institutions in the UK continue to prioritise advocating for Israeli impunity over the needs of the Jewish communities they allege to represent, they will become irrelevant & marginal. Moral bankruptcy of this level is at odds with all Jews of conscience.

Extraordinary public interest journalism - thank you caroline wheeler.

Such a dark day for Department of Health and Social Care & NHS England. Thinking of all those who suffered and died 😔

Rishi Sunak’s team blocked proposals to allow veterans to use their veteran IDs to vote because it would “open the floodgates” to students being able to use their ID cards too.

Perish the thought that students should be allowed to vote thetimes.co.uk/article/025309…

‘My PIP claim was rejected – one of my assessors hadn’t even heard of dialysis’

Aasma Day speaks to James Suett who was rejected for PIP even though he had kidney failure and was being kept alive by a dialysis machine trib.al/zlXMeRf

Dear 🇬🇧,

Here’s your monthly reminder that the NHS was ranked the #1 healthcare system in the world just 10 years ago. We don’t need a new system. We need a new govt that will tackle our catastrophic funding, beds, staff, and social care crises. It’s really that simple.

#SOSNHS

Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.8 billion to spend.

In November 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million.

The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit.

Raids by Israeli forces in Jenin, #WestBank , Palestine, have left at least 8 people dead, including Dr Osayd Jabarin, a Ministry of Health surgeon from MSF-supported Khalil Suleiman hospital, who was shot on his way to work.

We are already in a two-tier healthcare system

Nuffield Trust reports this week on a massive increase in private provision

More worrying, a massive surge in people using their savings to access care

From the best health system to one of the worst in 14yrs!

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Dear 🇬🇧,

Here’s your monthly reminder that the NHS was ranked the #1 healthcare system in the world just 10 years ago. We don’t need a new system. We need a new govt that will tackle our catastrophic funding, beds, staff, and social care crises. It’s really that simple.

#SOSNHS

YOU hold the power in your hands to save our NHS this general election.

Join tens of thousands of people - including celebrities - to demand your local candidates take the Pledge for the NHS.

Find out how at weownit.org.uk/act-now/pledge…

.Mikaela Loach - It’s Not That Radical 📖🇵🇸 talking sense about the problems in the NHS and why Labours plans are inadequate to deal with them #BBCLauraK

Under Jeremy Hunt, taxes are at their highest level since the Attlee government. The Attlee government built the NHS, the welfare state and hundreds of thousands of council houses. What are the Tories doing with the money?

'The people who most loudly proclaim their patriotism are always the first to sell us down the river.'

Neoliberalism has shown us that politicians care more about making a quick buck for their mates than the wellbeing of the nation, George Monbiot says.

George Monbiot

Had a rant about the crooked Tory party on #LateNightLycett Joe Lycett jack rooke 👋
WHERE HAS ALL THE MONEY GONE?

'Earlier in the year they'd been in power for 5,000 days since David Cameron became Prime Minister.. I calculated how much they have added to the national debt..

Says it all about Tory Britain that its leader achieves record growth in his personal wealth while its citizens literally go hungry.